{"id":5481,"date":"2009-11-16T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2009-11-16T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T16:25:09","slug":"uri-pharmacy-students-capture-pepto-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/2009\/11\/16\/uri-pharmacy-students-capture-pepto-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"URI pharmacy students capture Pepto Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/releases\/html\/images\/Pepto-Bowl-group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">URI pharmacy champions holding their sterling silver Pepto Bowl trophy. From the left, URI Pharmacy Dean Ronald Jordan and team members Srilatha Vallabhaneni, Caitlin Lucy and Michael Hanley.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 16, 2009- Answer: \u201cUniversity of Rhode Island pharmacy students.\u201d The Question: \u201cWho are the winners of this year\u2019s annual Pepto Bowl?\u201d<br \/>\nThree of URI\u2019s own pharmacy students took home the handsome sterling silver bowl in this year\u2019s \u201cJeopardy-style\u201d National Association of State Pharmacists Associations and the Nonprescription Medicines Academy Pharmacist Self Care Championship, also known as the \u201cPepto Bowl.\u201d<br \/>\nEndowed by Proctor &amp; Gamble, the maker of Pepto-Bismol, this was the second year of the competition that tests pharmacist skills related to self-care counseling and over-the-counter drug knowledge.<br \/>\nIt was held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncassville Conn. URI students Srilatha Vallabhaneni of Hopewell Junction N.Y., Caitlin Lucy of Bangor, Maine and URI alumnus Michael Hanley of Warren defeated defending champions the University of Connecticut, as well as two branches of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and Northeastern University.<br \/>\n\u201cThe most exciting part of the competition was the final question,\u201d Vallabhaneni said. During the last phase, a panel of judges had already evaluated each of the other teams and the URI team was the last to be evaluated. \u201cAll the other teams had answered correctly, and we knew if we were to also get the answer correct, we would win the game.\u201d<br \/>\nIt was an exciting day for students and faculty as well, as several URI faculty members were involved with the event. Professor Jef Bratberg entertained an early-morning crowd as the host of the event for the second year. As a steering committee member, Kelly Orr worked with faculty from the other New England schools regarding pre-production aspects of the game. Brett Feret served as one of five scorekeepers and Pharmacy Dean Ronald Jordan served as a judge.<br \/>\n\u201cKnowledge of over-the-counter medications and counseling of patients on appropriate self-care is a critical skill for successful practitioners,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cWhen pharmacists can help people make appropriate medicine-use decisions, we are adding value in health care delivery. I\u2019m proud we won the second year of the competition, demonstrating that the URI College of Pharmacy provides the leading pharmacist skills development training in the region,\u201d Jordan said.<br \/>\nMedia Contact: <a href=\"mailto:dlavallee@advance.uri.edu\"> Dave Lavallee<\/a>, 401-874-5862<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 16, 2009- Answer: \u201cUniversity of Rhode Island pharmacy students.\u201d The Question: \u201cWho are the winners of this year\u2019s annual Pepto Bowl?\u201d Three of URI\u2019s own pharmacy students took home the handsome sterling silver bowl in this year\u2019s \u201cJeopardy-style\u201d National Association of State Pharmacists Associations and the Nonprescription Medicines Academy Pharmacist Self [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":5482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,50,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-pharmd","category-news-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}